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First the good news. Fully 85% of normal American teen-agers say they feel happy most of the time. Now the bad news. In fact, things have been going downhill since the early 1960s. Three Chicago-area researchers surveyed 1,331 adolescents, the majority in the Midwest, during the early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Declining Teens | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

Myriad evils--officers bent on promotion, industrialists bent on profit, generals bent on status, and politicians bent on re-election--all do their part to plague the American military. Fallows contends. He lays the bulk of the blame for weakness, though, on two phenomena: The Pentagon's affection for unbelievably...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The Price of Defense | 7/10/1981 | See Source »

If Koch is the elective shoo-in that he appears, however, it is not only because of what people know and see about him, but what they guess about him as well. New Yorkers know that Koch seems a hard-nose. What they guess about him is that he is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mayor for All Seasons | 6/15/1981 | See Source »

Among newspaper critics, Shales is the most admired, though John O'Connor of the New York Times may have more clout because of his proximity to Broadcast Row. The Shales style is a fast-paced blend of insight, humor and an almost possessive affection for the medium. He can...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Terrible Tom, the TV Tiger | 6/8/1981 | See Source »

Considering his box office strength, one would think that Pryor could command the creation of vehicles to match his gift. Or perhaps he likes being the best thing about a picture, since he functioned as his own producer on Bustin' Loose, and it is, if anything, more inept -certainly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cooling Out | 6/1/1981 | See Source »

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